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Matt Birk refused White House trip because President Obama is pro-choice

Yesterday, the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens took the standard trip to the White House to meet, greet, and pose for a photo with President Obama.SEE ALSO: Jesse Ventura says Obama is basically the black George W. Bush But the starting center on that team -- St. Paul native and longtime Viking ... More >>

Notable 2012 deaths in country music

Get out your hanky so you don't spill a tear in your beer; from Susanna Clark to Kitty Wells, several legendary country singers and songwriters passed on in 2012, and their loss is felt keenly as our connection to a better time in traditional country goes slippin' away.

Behind Laos's yellow rain and tears

A controversial Radiolab episode opens old wounds and raises countless questions for Minnesota's Hmong

MNGOP accuses DFL of "using racist tactics" by darkening photo of Rep. King Banaian [IMAGE]

MNGOP leaders are accusing the DFL of race-baiting with a new anti-Rep. King Banaian mailer.SEE ALSO:-- Minnesota is one of the least racist states, according to Google (and Harvard)-- Bemidji cross burning: Two white men, ages 19 and 20, arrested [MUGSHOTS]-- Racist Art Song's chicken wings sign un ... More >>

The Nerdery geeks out with fun at work

One of the state's top employers brings heart and innovation to the workplace

Mankwe Ndosi's Science and Spirit fuses hip-hop, soul, and activism

Juxtaposition Arts hosts release show on Saturday

Bradlee Dean attacks Dan Savage for calling parts of the Bible "bullshit"

Bradlee Dean is on the offensive again, launching a vicious and inane attack on Dan Savage for being critical of the Bible. Savage spoke to high school students recently and talked about how it's possible to "ignore the bullshit" in the Bible about gay people "the same way we have learned to ignore ... More >>

Washington Avenue at U of M closes Monday to make way for light rail

Avoid driving Washington Avenue at the U from now on.​The train is coming, and you'd better get out of the way. Sometime late Sunday afternoon, trucks are going to roll up Washington Avenue where it bisects the University of Minnesota campus and drop off a bunch of barricades. Work crews are ... More >>

Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken back Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken ​U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken voiced strong support this morning for President Barack Obama's nomination this morning of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next justice for the U.S. Supreme Court. Both senators sit on the judiciary committee, wh ... More >>

Resolution

And the gyms of January

New York Times apologizes for writer's 3M junket to St. Paul

The Times now says it would not have published the piece as written had it known that 3M paid for the airfare.

Paul Tough

Readers respond to "Exit with Honor"

Tom Morello, Uh Huh Her, and more

Mike Wigley

The Taxman

Film Highlight: A Walk into the Sea

The Torturer Talks

Hostel Part II writer-director Eli Roth on opening opposite George Clooney and making a "feminist horror film"

Ivy Beleaguered

Hot House Flowers

Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear sip mint juleps and lemonade out at their yellow house

A Stranger Is Watching

RFIDs and the coming age of the digital pickpocket

Tomb Raider

The case of the horny pharaoh--and other trick sarcophagi

I Dunnit--Me, Mamet, I'm To Blame, Indeed

Hollywood auteur-cum-harlot cops a convoluted plea in 'Spartan'

Preacher Woman

Each Sunday, Nancy Smith puts on one hell of a show for God

The Parent Trap

Want to be "middle class"? Don't have kids.

My So-Called Band

Tiki Obmar compose the IDM soundtrack to your high school experience

Love Letters

'The Beautiful and the Damned' meets 'The Naked and the Dead'

City of Sideshows

Amid all the carnival barking of the fringe, we tell you which tent shows deserve your ten bucks

What a Feeling

An Oak Street retrospective pulls us back to the flashy days of Eighties cinema

Peter D. Kramer: Spectacular Happiness

Risky Business

Startup.com makes a mint out of a losing proposition

Who Needs Friends?

The enemy of salacious TV programming might be the family-friendly wonder Gilmore Girls

Off Beat

Magic Bus

The NAACP's education lawsuit promised to be a watershed case for poor and minority kids. So when exactly did the wheels come off?

Once in Love With Amy

The surprise hit Judging Amy is a kind of woman's standard, in the key of melodrama

The Love That Loves to Love

Three debut collections of short stories question our terms of endearment

Good Cheap Fun for Your Family

Have you played a board game lately?

Liberating Liberace

The most fabulous musician of all time helps America see queerly in a new video collection

South Pacific

The Tide Is High

Lady and the cad: Alice (Chloë Sevigny) and Des (Chris Eigeman) toast the last days of disco

1973 Music

The Song Remains the Same

Wok on the mild side: Lotis Key and Soon-Tek Oh star in Theater Mu's tepid take on the American Dream

Music for Films

Yo-Yo a go-go: The cellist in Mark Morris's "Falling Down Stairs"

Rude Awakenings

Carol Dresel has restless-legs syndrome. Coy Replogle flails around and whacks his wife. Local sleep researchers hope to put such nightmares to rest-- and find out what dreams are made of.

The Pretenders

You'd think that Clinton's decision amounting to a death sentence for thousands of HIV-positive Americans might generate a public outcry. Instead, the chattering classes were obsessed with Dick Gephardt's speech at Harvard.

UFF DUH! Minnesota is as Minnesota Does

The 1997 Tongue-on-the-Flagpole Awards

Pulling the Plug

Downsized Discontent

Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts caretake our paranoia in Conspiracy Theory.

Working for the Man This season, television rediscovers the proletariat.

Shadow of a Former Self

The Trials of David Lillehaug

In the wake of Najarian and Shabazz, the U.S. attorney and former DFL prodigy finds his once-bright political future in question.